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Lay Presidency by Presbyteral Delegation
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The worldwide debate about lay presidency took a new turn recently when the Appellate Tribunal (the highest legal/constitutional interpretive authority in the Anglican Church of Australia) published its 4-3 Opinion that the Australian Church was legislatively competent to authorise lay or diaconal eucharistic presidency. It is the purpose of this paper to examine and evaluate the new argument set forth in that Opinion by Bishop Bruce Wilson (Bishop of Bathurst): that the delegation of eucharistic presidency to a deacon or lay person may be justified as an exercise of presbyteral oversight.l
To date, the two main arguments for lay/diaconal presidency had either sought a …
